Michael Dykes is no longer chief of the Woodfin Police Department.
The Asheville City Council voted Tuesday to demolish a house on South French Broad Avenue that has been linked to violent crime.
The $237,000 of grants are meant to narrow an opportunity gap for kids from low- to moderate-income families.
It included the biggest loan the fund ever granted: nearly $3.9 million to Roers Companies for 126 units of in southwest Asheville.
A park dedication ceremony on Sunday in North Asheville will honor the memory of a woman murdered at the site in May 2016.
Bobby Eugene Darnell was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty to robbery with a dangerous weapon and obtaining property by false pretense.
City Council takes no action but hears from backers of a new district and critics who see it as an attempt to push out homeless.
Authorities said Randal Paul Penland Jr. targeted women in the Fairview and Arden areas, waited until they were not home, then broke into their homes to steal jewelry.
The man was accused of using his car to “cut-off” a motorcycle that was trying to pass his car, resulting in the rider’s death.
A food scraps program honored by the Carolina Recycling Association has kept tons of waste out of the Buncombe County landfill.